The lover marguerite duras summary

The language is in spots lyrical. The situation the lovers find themselves in is truly romantic and tragic. But it is also an example of this life turned upside down, as the girl is white and poor, while the man is Chinese and rich.

From her disjointed vignettes, I never figured out any of these things. I must have missed the sparkle the critics saw. We return to the ferry, where the Chinaman offers the girl a lift to Saigon. Jul 14, Jane Hoppe rated it did not like it The Lover: I connected with Duras best when she described the fragility of first love.

I think a lot of these things that are dismissed are hard to do. Love is an exchange of power.

The history of these three characters is brief and intrudes in the midst of the story of the girl and her lover, and is not otherwise explained. We who are now almost old ladies, at least well into our mature years. On that particular day, the fifteen and one-half year old girl was returning to Saigon, as was the twenty-eight-year-old rich "Chinaman" Tony Leung Ka Fai.

I tried appreciating The Lover as a prose poem. Only the male character in the end remains the same, and the girl too, perhaps, as she has written herself.

Again I remember myself, walking hand in hand with a year-old man when I was just sixteen. But what can we do, but go on living? I read it as a memoir of Marguerite Duras. The child tells her own story through much of the book, yet there are also passages such as this one: She takes local transportation, which includes a ferry ride over a branch of the vast Mekong River.

And I really wanted to like this book. It is a paradox, in fact. It won the Goncourt prize in L'Amant = The Lover, Marguerite Duras The Lover (French: L'Amant) is an autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras, published in by Les Éditions de Minuit.

It has been translated to 43 languages and was awarded the Prix Goncourt.

It was adapted to film in as The Lover/5. The Lover by Marguerite Duras (Book Analysis) Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide 24 EBook Plurilingua Publishing This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of The Lover by Marguerite Duras.

L'Amant = The Lover, Marguerite Duras The Lover (French: L'Amant) is an autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras, published in by Les Éditions de Minuit.

It has been translated to 43 languages and was awarded the Prix Goncourt. It was adapted to film in as The Lover/5(K). Dec 29, · Marguerite Duras’s August book The Lover, published in the heyday of deconstructive thought, bears the signs of that thought in the sense that while it operates without boundaries, it yet is bounded by the very system that calls it forth.

It is a paradox, in fact. Apr 27, · Duras herself was surprised by the breathless praise The Lover received; she dismissed the book, even going so far as to rewrite it, in the form of notes to a film, as The North China Lover.

And Laure Adler, in her unauthorized biography Marguerite Duras: A Life, writes that the author had harsh words for it, international acclaim or no. This detailed literature summary also contains Topics for Discussion and a Free Quiz on The Lover by Marguerite Duras.

The novel tells the story of a young French girl living in Colonial French Indochina during the early s.